The Koyo Store is specialising in pin badges, collectible coins and lace charms

Has snapped up official licences from emoji, Rainbow Six Siege, World of Tanks, Thunderbirds and more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A new entertainment merchandise specialist has emerged to capitalise on the fast-growing pin badge and collection coin market.

The Koyo Store has already secured a number of official licences from top video games and entertainment brands, including emoji, Rainbow Six Siege, World of Tanks, World of Warships, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet.

The high-quality badges, coins and lace charms are available to buy via the company’s website at thekoyostore.com. They include:-

EMOJI

A range of pin badges (£4.99 each) denoting the internationally recognised faces and symbols; plus Mystery Collections (£9.99) which include three pin badges; and Mystery Collections of lace charms (£1.99 for a pack containing three charms).

PLUS! The Koyo Store also provides a bespoke service - a unique opportunity for you to create your own merchandise to promote and celebrate your business. Turn your logo into something physical – whether that’s a pin badge, collectible challenge coin, key ring or more! This bespoke service allows you to promote your business, brand and message in a unique way. The Koyo Store can design and source bespoke and unusual merchandise – the only limitation is your imagination!

The Koyo Store is also speaking to retailers about the ranges, and more licences are due to be announced shortly.

“We are seeing a resurgence in retro-style merchandise such as pin badges, particularly in the video games and entertainment sectors,” said Lee Townsend, the Founder of The Koyo Store. “We’ve been delighted with the response from consumers – and the trade – since we launched earlier this year. We’re looking forward to taking our badges and other collectibles to new areas, and with a growing roster of licences.”

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About The Koyo Store

The Koyo Store specialises in Pin Badges, Collectible Coins and other merchandise for leading entertainment and video games brands. The company’s ecommerce site at www.thekoyostore.comsells direct to consumers, and The Koyo Store also supplies third party retailers.

Full Beta of the innovative AR mobile combat game kicks off on iOS & Android

Reality Clash, the unique Augmented Reality FPS mobile combat game from publisher Reality Gaming Group, has just gone into Beta on Android and iOS, with thousands of testers already signed up to play the game and provide feedback.

The publisher has also kicked off a unique co-operative initiative with both Kingston and Westminster Universities in the UK that will see students testing the game, which uses innovative blockchain and geo-location technology, ahead of its release in early-2019.

As part of the university outreach Reality Gaming Group has delivered talks on AR & blockchain gaming and the development process to video game degree course undergraduates.

In addition to students and the general public, other participants in the Beta testing programme include Denmark-based eSports community, Sørby, which Reality Gaming Group supports.

All Beta programme participants who complete and return the associated feedback questionnaire will be rewarded with a personalised in-game weapon with their name on it.

Reality Clash is an innovative AR first person combat game for mobile devices set in an underground world of cryptocurrency and hackers. Players are able to connect to friends in real-time using geo map technology, join private teams and enter competitive tournaments. Reality Clash has been highlighted by Blockchaingamer.biz as one of the 10 most anticipated blockchain games.

“We’re delighted that Reality Clash is now at a Beta stage,” said Reality Gaming Group Co-Founder Tony Pearce. “In just a year, we have taken the concept of this game-changing app – which boasts leading edge AR, blockchain and geo-location technology - from concept to reality. And it’s exciting to see the game now in thousands of gamers’ hands. We’re looking forward to gaining their feedback to ensure that the game hits the mark when we go to full launch in early 2019.”

“At the same time, we’re very happy to be working with the staff and students at both Kingston and Westminster Universities. The observations we receive from them will be invaluable, and we’re delighted to be able to give something back to these individuals by providing advice and practical help in their studies.”

The Reality Gaming Group is the developer and publisher of mobile AR combat game Reality Clash, which is due for release in early 2019 and utilises exciting blockchain technology. It is also the creator of a ground-breaking AR geo-location platform for mobile, which can be deployed across a huge range of content types. The Reality Gaming Group development team has more than 20 years’ experience across Mobile, PC, Console, AR and VR games platforms. For more information, visit: http://realitygaminggroup.com

Embark on a Magical Journey Through Colourful Levels of Sweet Goodness

LONDON, UK – October 25, 2018 – Videogame publisher Rising Star Games announced today that the magical platform puzzle game from Cobra Mobile, Storm in a Teacup, is available now digitally on the Nintendo Switch™ system on the Nintendo eShop globally.

Storm in a Teacup takes place in a dream-like world that Cloud, the brother to main character Storm, has created. Players will guide Storm through each level navigating platform jumps, avoiding dangerous enemies, and grabbing sugar cubes and other collectibles to achieve the highest score possible!

ABOUT COBRA MOBILECobra Mobile is an award-winning international game developer and publisher based in Dundee, Scotland that creates amazing games for Mobile, Messaging, Console and Steam. Cobra has created a wide range of smash-hit games, including Red’ Kingdom, Let's Go Rocket, Let’s Go Drop, Cobi Golf Shots and the totally awesome iBomber game series to name a few. www.cobramobile.com

ABOUT RISING STAR GAMESRising Star Games is a privately held video games publisher with a global reach. With operating offices in Europe and USA the company publishes video game entertainment across all gaming platforms from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and via Steam. With decades of combined experience and a genuine passion for interactive entertainment, Rising Star Games is proud of its ever-expanding and enormously diverse catalogue of over 130 titles. www.risingstargames.com

“We set out to come up with a series that was at least as good, if not better, in quality and design as anything already out there in the ‘collectibles’ field, but at a substantially lower price. And we think we've succeeded,” said Wordsworth Editions Managing Director Helen Trayler.

“We've been delighted by the reception the series has received and we are already having hastily to plan reprints to ensure we have enough stock in before the Christmas rush.”

The hardback Children’s Classic Collector’s Editions are available for is £6.99 each.

You can find more information about the series, and where to buy them at:

About Wordsworth EditionsWordsworth Editions is a successful, family-run business based in Hertfordshire. It shook up the book publishing world in the early 1990s, when it launched its range of paperback Classics, priced at just £1 each. Today Wordsworth Editions remains a leader in the sector it created, expanding its portfolio to cover Children’s Classics, World Literature, Poetry and Mystery & Supernatural titles.

Online courses are complemented by a new physical training facility at Shure's UK offices

London, UK, October 19th 2018– Shure has underlined its commitment to providing audio professionals with up-to-date technical insights and training with the launch of the new Shure Audio Institute (SAI) Integrated Systems Certification program.

This innovative and unique scheme will ensure that customers are equipped with a solid understanding of general audio topics, plus the practical skillsets required to navigate this rapidly evolving sector. The free Integrated Systems Certification program is aimed at new and existing Shure customers and is open to anyone looking to gain sales and technical knowledge in Shure products and solutions, enabling them to more effectively manage client situations.

The Integrated Systems Certification program supports the implementation of Shure products globally through training, education, and certification. In addition, it ensures that Shure distribution centres and channel partners have the up-to-date knowledge required to buy, resell, and technically support Shure products in the Integrated Systems market, elevating capabilities and the confidence of end users.

These courses are now available and can be accessed via local Shure websites. Online courses are currently available in English, however all courses will be adapted for multilingual use in the near future.

Furthermore, Shure is supporting its audio education scheme with the launch of a new training facility in its UK offices at The I.O Centre, Waltham Abbey.

The Shure UK office covers all aspects of audio education for industry professionals in a specially-designed contemporary space for collaborative teaching and conferencing.

As the trend towards codec usage continues, SAI has adopted a 'bring your own device' (BYOD) approach, where students can arrive at the space and simply plug in their laptops via USB, granting them immediate access to the AV system in the room.

Shure UK is offering places to pro audio and AV professionals on a variety of seminar and workshop-based educational courses, run throughout the year.

Discussing the new facility and services available, Andrew Francis, Manager of Applications at Shure UK said: “The primary purpose of our training is to help the technicians using our systems set them up correctly and to ensure end users are getting the best possible experience from the equipment they’ve invested in.”

“We welcome any visitors to come in and talk to us about our technology. We can now deliver the best possible training and technical support to all our customers, as well as designing and building a unique space to be able to demonstrate how end users can create their own workspaces and use the technology within them effectively.”

About ShureFounded in 1925, Shure Incorporated (www.shure.com) is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, networked audio systems, and award-winning earphones and headphones. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority.

Shure Incorporated is headquartered in Niles, Illinois, in the United States with more than 30 additional manufacturing facilities and regional sales offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.

Digital PlayStation®4 version releases on 24 September, physical retail edition arrives in stores on 28 September

London, UK – 20 September, 2018 –Videogame publisher Rising Star Games announced today that Little Dragons Caféis now available digitally on Nintendo Switch™. The digital release date for the PlayStation®4 version is September 24. The physical retail release for both formats spreads its wings across Europe and beyond on September 28.

Adventure is on the menu as you enter an entirely new world fashioned by Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of the Bokujō Monogatari series (published under the names Harvest Moonand Story of Seasonsoutside of Japan).

ABOUT RISING STAR GAMESRising Star Games is a privately held video games publisher with a global reach. With operating offices in Europe and USA the company publishes video game entertainment across all gaming platforms from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and via Steam. With decades of combined experience and a genuine passion for interactive entertainment, Rising Star Games is proud of its ever-expanding and enormously diverse catalogue of over 130 titles. www.risingstargames.com

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The firm is now working on Kartoon Racers, which uniquely takes iconic heroes and villains from popular culture and mashes them together in a series of crazy and chaotic kart races.

Each race features 12 racers from two rival teams – namely ‘Team Heroes’ and ‘Team Villains’.

Team Heroes features legends such as Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur and Cleopatra, while Team Villains includes classic bad guys such as Captain Hook, Frankenstein’s Monster and the Queen of Hearts.

This use of classic characters is a unique concept from a licensing perspective, allowing Viewpoint Games to provide gamers of all generations with instantly-recognisable characters.

Neil Campbell explains: “We decided to use characters that exist within the Public Domain. By using iconic characters who already have their own unique history, players can immediately identify with them, rather than getting to know a host of new characters and their personalities.

“Animations will evoke the personality of the character. For example, Sherlock Holmes is always cool and collected, while Frankenstein’s Monster is large and reckless.

Viewpoint Games is currently in negotiations with a number of publishing partners, with Kartoon Racersscheduled for release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC and Switch in 2019.

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About Viewpoint Games

Viewpoint Games was founded in September 2014 by games industry veterans Neil Campbell and Neil Wigfield. With 18 years’ experience, the directors have worked on blockbuster franchises including Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. Viewpoint’s VR Karts has been a hit on all major VR platforms, including PSVR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.

Stockholm/Sweden, September 17 2018− The Stockholm International Fairs and Congress Centre in Sweden recently installed 68 channels of the Shure Axient® Digital Wireless System.Stockholmsmässan is Scandinavia’s largest exhibition centre, with a total of 75,000 square metres of exhibition area. It hosts high-level international conferences and events throughout the year, including the world-renowned Medical Congress, which attracts more than 15,000 medical professionals during a three-day period.

Reliability was a key factor in the decision when it came to selecting a new wireless system. Axient Digital was chosen for its superb audio quality at low latency, long battery life, and versatile channel bandwidth.

The dedicated in-house AV department, which oversees the small, mid-size, and large conference and exhibition applications, needed a dependable wireless system with excellent performance. Fredrik Zetterberg, Head of Production Event Technologies, Stockholmsmässan, said that the system had “exceeded all expectations in sonic quality.”

“Axient Digital is the best sound quality we’ve ever heard in a digital system,” explains Zetterberg. “From exhibitions to corporate events, we use Axient Digital constantly. This month we will use 132 systems for a two-day corporate event, with a total of 212 wireless systems in operation, showcasing the system’s flexibility and reliability.”

The installation was managed by specialist Swedish audio rental company Parashoot, “Choosing Axient Digital for the Stockholmsmässan project was our first choice of system,” offers Oscar Söderlund, founder of Parashoot. “Signal stability, along with audio clarity, was paramount to a successful installation. Add to this the flexible hardware options and advanced connectivity Axient Digital offers, and there really is no other system you can count on for coverage and signal quality.”

Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated (www.shure.com) is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, networked audio systems, and award-winning earphones and headphones. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority.

Shure Incorporated is headquartered in Niles, Illinois, in the United States with more than 30 additional manufacturing facilities and regional sales offices throughout the Americas, EMEA, and Asia.

About Parashoot

With over 30 years of live sound experience, Parashoot is a Swedish audio rental company specialising in FOH, Monitor, exotic outboard, and stage setups for customers demanding the best audio solutions.

About StockholmInternational Fairs

Founded in 1971, Stockholmsmässan is Sweden’s biggest exhibition centre, hosting over 70 leading exhibitions and hundreds of national and international congresses, conferences, and corporate events a year.

JOIN US ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH AT SOHO RADIO, GREAT WINDMILL STREET TO FIND OUT!

Reality Gaming Group has joined forces with Soho Radio and Jägermeister to give London’s consumers the opportunity to find out how to buy and use cryptocurrency – with visitors to the store being given free masterclasses and even free virtual coins to allow them to make their first crypto transactions.

On Thursday September 13th from 3pm to 10pmat Soho Radio on Great Windmill Street, W1D 7LD, we’re also celebrating ‘Crypto Week’ and the public unveiling of the Reality Clash game.

Due for release in Q4, Reality Clash is an innovative augmented reality first person combat game for mobile devices set in an underground world of cryptocurrency and hackers.

Players will be able to connect to friends in real-time using geo map technology, join private teams and enter competitive tournaments.

JOIN US FOR COCKTAILS, FOOD, LIVE MUSIC AND THE CHANCE TO COLLECT FREE VIRTUAL COINS!

Contact Lisa.Carter@mimrammedia.comto ensure your name is on the guest list!

About Reality Gaming GroupThe Reality Gaming Group is the developer and publisher of mobile AR combat game Reality Clash, which is due for release in late-2018 and utilises exciting blockchain technology. It is also the creator of a ground-breaking AR geo-location platform for mobile, which can be deployed across a huge range of content types. The Reality Gaming Group development team has more than 20 years’ experience across Mobile, PC, Console, AR and VR games platforms. For more information, visit: http://realitygaminggroup.com/

About Crypto WeekCrypto Week is a new initiative launched to promote and celebrate the brave new world of digital currencies. It is being spearheaded by the Reality Clash Group, in association with other leading organisations and individuals who are pioneers in the sector.

Former Codemasters Director takes the hotseat, with Narcos, Zumba and Guitar Hero at the top of his inbox

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Matt White has been appointed Head of Studios at UK developer Kuju. He replaces Brynley Gibson, who is moving to Sweden with his family.

Part of the Catalis Group – which also includes Curve Digital and Testronic – Kuju currently has teams working on Narcos, Zumba and Guitar Hero games. White will head up all Kuju operations, whilst looking to further expand the studio’s activities.

White joins Kuju from Codemasters where he was Game Director. He has also enjoyed stints at Exient, Microsoft, Infogrames and Games Workshop during his career in game development.

“We’re delighted that Matt is joining us to head up Kuju as we embark on an exciting period, with work beginning on Narcos and Zumba Fitness, and expansion plans underway,” said Catalis CEO Dominic Wheatley. “Matt’s extensive experience speaks for itself and we’re looking forward to him taking Kuju forward.”

"Kuju are a well known and highly respected developer whose titles have engaged and delighted players,” said White. “The games in development show a commitment, passion and collaboration for crafting compelling experiences. I am thrilled to be joining this team and leading the exciting growth of the business."

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About Kuju Ltd.Kuju makes compelling games & branded experiences for VR, AR and Console platforms such as the upcomingNarcosfor PC, Switch, Xbox One and PS4. With 20 years of experience and over 125 titles to its name, Kuju is one of the UK’s longest serving ‘work for hire’ developers. Based in London and Brighton it has produced titles for some of the world’s biggest publishers including Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Activision, Disney and Ubisoft. Alongside developing original concepts such as the long running Art Academyseries, the company has been entrusted with developing globally recognised IP from the worlds of Film, TV and Games. These titles include brands such as The Lord of the Rings, Marvel, The Voice, Zumbaand Guitar Hero. www.Kuju.com